A hit movie made from a montage of home video clips unearthed in charity shops is being screened at Birmingham's Electric Cinema.

The Found Footage Festival sees 90 minutes of often bizarre clips put together by US filmmakers Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher.

The pair spent months scavenging, then watching, videos from second hand shops, including many from the UK.

They include a 1996 video about how to care for your ferret and footage of a drunken spring break trip to Florida in 1985.

The duo have been producing the films since 2004.

The Birmingham showing of their work is on Monday at the Electric.

The Found Footage Festival has sold out hundreds of shows across the US and Canada, including the HBO Comedy Festival in Las Vegas and the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal.

Joe and Nick began collecting found videotapes in 1991 after stumbling across a training video entitled, “Inside and Outside Custodial Duties" at a McDonald’s in their home state of Wisconsin.

Here is a selection of the videos they unearthed:

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Nick said: "We found a video a while back called 'Sing-Along with Frank Woehrle,' in which a mustached man in a cowboy hat sang old standards with the lyrics on-screen so you could sing along.

Turns out, the tape was part of a series of 20 videos and we had to have them all, so we called up the company (which was miraculously still in business) and they agreedto sell the whole set for $160. Way overpriced, but we think it was worth it."

At Home With English

Nick said: "People always accuse Americans of butchering the English language, and they're mostly right, but not when it comes to Greg Thompson, the star of this English instructional TV show from Austin, Texas.

"No matter what is happening in each implausible scenario in this video, his enunciation is perfect."

Blessercize

Nick said: "Jesus and exercise go together like leg warmers and leotards.

"That's the case made by Marie Chapian, the perky host of 'Blessercize' at least when the obnoxious soundtrack isn't drowning her out."